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A Shaavir-written proposal won a seat in all six Service Management Areas of the Congressional Budget Office SENTRY BPA under solicitation CB26-RFQ0012. The Congressional Budget Office has made award under solicitation CB26-RFQ0012, the SENTRY blanket purchase agreement for IT support services. A Shaavir-written proposal took a seat in all six Service Management Areas, from senior network engineering to program management. Award At A Glance The Congressional Budget Office has made award under solicitation CB26-RFQ0012, the SENTRY blanket purchase agreement for IT support services. A Shaavir-written proposal took a seat in every one of the six Service Management Areas the solicitation covers. All six. The client holds the award and asked to stay unnamed, so this announcement names the agency and the solicitation only. | Item | Detail | |---|---| | Agency | Congressional Budget Office | | Solicitation | CB26-RFQ0012 | | Vehicle | SENTRY, a multiple-award blanket purchase agreement | | Scope | IT support services across six Service Management Areas | | Result | Awarded in all six areas | | Offeror | A Shaavir client, unnamed at the client's request | | Shaavir's role | Wrote the response | Six Areas, One Response SENTRY splits the work into six Service Management Areas: 1. Senior Network Engineering 2. Cloud Service Support and Engineering 3. Service Desk 4. Web Developer Security Engineering 5. Cybersecurity Engineering 6. Program Management Between them those six cover the working life of a federal IT organization. They run from the people who answer the phone to the people who defend the network, and then to the people who account for the whole program. CBO supports Congress with budget and economic analysis, so its systems carry the work product of a legislative branch agency. The support model has to hold on an ordinary Tuesday as well as during a scoring deadline. What A BPA Seat Buys A blanket purchase agreement is not a contract with money in it. The FAR is plain about the arrangement. FAR 13.303-1(a) calls a BPA "a simplified method of filling anticipated repetitive needs for supplies or services by establishing 'charge accounts' with qualified sources of supply." A seat is standing, not revenue. The agency buys by placing orders against the agreement, and on a multiple-award BPA the holders compete for those orders as they come. Our own guide to IDIQ against BPA (/blog/idiq-vs-bpa) works through why the two behave so differently, and the federal contract vehicles guide (/blog/federal-contract-vehicles) puts both in the wider map. That is the honest frame for any award announcement about a vehicle. What this award buys the client is the right to be asked. Six times over, across six different kinds of work, for the length of the agreement. Why Six Beats One A multiple-award BPA with six areas is not one competition. It is six, stapled together and submitted at once. Eac
The Congressional Budget Office has made award under solicitation CB26-RFQ0012, the SENTRY blanket purchase agreement for IT support services. A Shaavir-written proposal took a seat in all six Service Management Areas, from senior network engineering to program management.
Award At A Glance The Congressional Budget Office has made award under solicitation CB26-RFQ0012, the SENTRY blanket purchase agreement for IT support services. A Shaavir-written proposal took a seat in every one of the six Service Management Areas the solicitation covers. All six. The client holds the award and asked to stay unnamed, so this announcement names the agency and the solicitation only. | Item | Detail | |---|---| | Agency | Congressional Budget Office | | Solicitation | CB26-RFQ0012 | | Vehicle | SENTRY, a multiple-award blanket purchase agreement | | Scope | IT support services across six Service Management Areas | | Result | Awarded in all six areas | | Offeror | A Shaavir client, unnamed at the client's request | | Shaavir's role | Wrote the response | Six Areas, One Response SENTRY splits the work into six Service Management Areas: 1. Senior Network Engineering 2. Cloud Service Support and Engineering 3. Service Desk 4. Web Developer Security Engineering 5. Cybersecurity Engineering 6. Program Management Between them those six cover the working life of a federal IT organization. They run from the people who answer the phone to the people who defend the network, and then to the people who account for the whole program. CBO supports Congress with budget and economic analysis, so its systems carry the work product of a legislative branch agency. The support model has to hold on an ordinary Tuesday as well as during a scoring deadline. What A BPA Seat Buys A blanket purchase agreement is not a contract with money in it. The FAR is plain about the arrangement. FAR 13.303-1(a) calls a BPA "a simplified method of filling anticipated repetitive needs for supplies or services by establishing 'charge accounts' with qualified sources of supply." A seat is standing, not revenue. The agency buys by placing orders against the agreement, and on a multiple-award BPA the holders compete for those orders as they come. Our own guide to IDIQ against BPA (/blog/idiq-vs-bpa) works through why the two behave so differently, and the federal contract vehicles guide (/blog/federal-contract-vehicles) puts both in the wider map. That is the honest frame for any award announcement about a vehicle. What this award buys the client is the right to be asked. Six times over, across six different kinds of work, for the length of the agreement. Why Six Beats One A multiple-award BPA with six areas is not one competition. It is six, stapled together and submitted at once. Eac